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bogeymanbo‧gey‧man /ˈbəʊɡimæn $ ˈboʊ-/ noun (plural bogeymen /-men/) [countable] - Also known as a boogeyman or bogeyman, one can only have an effect if its victim pays heed to it.
- But it helps to expiate our imagined sins if we have a bogeyman to hand, a Drug Baron.
- He's the bogeyman of the North Shore.
- It was in 1924 and the Labour prime minister, Ramsay MacDonald, was the bogeyman.
- Strange, he hadn't seemed the type to be scared of bogeymen.
- The only way to banish the bogeyman was to look him in the eye without flinching.
- The other Chris Woodhead revelled in his media role as the teachers' bogeyman.
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